--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | Amazon description: Amazon | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [OSHA applies General Duty Clause to protect warehouse employees](https://blog.stpub.com/osha-applies-general-duty-clause-to-protect-warehouse-employees) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Mon, Mar 06, 2023 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/warehouses.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/osha-applies-general-duty-clause-to-protect-warehouse-employees) On February 1, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations to Amazon company warehouses in three states, continuing investigations into the company’s practices in other states. OSHA is asserting that the company is violating the Employer’s General Duty Clause by failing to protect warehouse workers from low back injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders. Although California enforces specific ergonomics requirements (which I’ve written about [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/california-adds-ergonomics-standard-for-hotel-workers)), OSHA and other states instead regulate ergonomics violations by targeted industries through their General Duty Clauses. The remainder of this note discusses these recent OSHA efforts to protect warehouse workers. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/osha-applies-general-duty-clause-to-protect-warehouse-employees) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/osha-applies-general-duty-clause-to-protect-warehouse-employees#comments-listing) Tags: [OSHA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/osha), [Employee Rights](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/employee-rights), [Protecting employees](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/protecting-employees), [Employment](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/employment), [Labour & Employment](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/labour-employment), [Amazon](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/amazon) [All posts](https://blog.stpub.com/all) ### Follow Me ### Subscribe by Email ### Browse by Topic Area - [Accounting & Tax ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/accounting-tax) - [Business & Legal ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Corporate Governance  ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Corporate+Governance) - [Environmental ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Environmental) - [Global ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Global) - [Health & Safety ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [Internet ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Internet) - [Transportation ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Transportation) ### Browse by Tag - [Environmental (344)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental) - [Business & Legal (309)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Environmental risks (300)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-risks) - [Health & Safety (296)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [EPA (283)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa) - [Terms & Conditions](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-Terms-of-Use-Dec-20.pdf) - [Privacy Policy](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/STP-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [License Agreement](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-License-Agreement-Dec-20.pdf) - [Sitemap](http://stpub.com/sitemap) - [Support](http://stpub.com/support) © 2021 STP ComplianceEHS - All rights reserved